Editorial: MFP redo is right idea at wrong time

6:47 PM,
Oct. 29, 2013

File/USA TODAY

Written by

Times Editorial Board

During last week's third meeting of Minimum Foundation Program Task Force, the former president of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents spoke pretty candidly about how he felt about the current formula used to determine how our state divides roughly $3.5 billion in funding among its public school systems.

"It's time we face reality. This formula has outlived its usefulness."

Michael Faulk's words may have been jarring to some on the panel since there are only two more meetings of the task force left, but they did address an essential truth. Louisiana's education landscape ...